Originally Posted by daslax

My partner and I maxed out on the promo - I've spent all of mine and he's got just over 7k in his account. I looked at using these toward hotels, but in every case, the dollar amount in addition to the Avios is around the same price as the best rate I can get without using any. Anybody come up with any other decent uses of small balances? I'll still be happy if these just end up dying, but of course would love to maximize.